The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five Europen countries

The presented tables display the

sales

development of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and

bananas

in five countries (UK, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, and

Sweden

) in the period of 1999 and 2004.

Overall

, in a span of five years, the

sales

of coffee increased in all five countries

while

the demand for

bananas

in some countries, namely Belgium and

Sweden

, showed a downward trend.

According to

the data, the largest

sales

of coffee in 1999 were recorded in Switzerland with a total amount of 3

million

euros

.

Nonetheless

, the UK took over the first position, significantly escalating from 1.5

million

euros

in 1999 to 20

million

euros

in 2004.

Besides

,

Sweden

was the country with the least

sales

in both years, 0.8

million

euros

and 1

million

euros

respectively. Meanwhile, the

sales

of

bananas

experienced a different pattern. The UK consistently became the biggest market for

bananas

as indicated by the

sales

that tripled from 15

million

euros

in 1999 to 47

million

euros

in 2004. Denmark contributed the smallest revenue from

bananas

with merely 0.6

million

in 1999.

However

, the situation changed in 2004 when

Sweden

placed in the lowest rank with

sales

of 0.9

million

euros

.